And the Crows Took Their Eyes

ISBN: 1646030117

Author: Lane, Vicki

Condition: New

In bitterly divided western North Carolina, Confederate troops execute thirteen men and boys suspected of Unionism. The Shelton Laurel Massacre, as it came to be known, is a microcosm of the horrors of civil war-neighbor against neighbor and violence at ones own front door. Told by those who lived it-the colonels wife, a helpless witness; the jealous second-in-command who gives the fatal order; the canny mountain woman who cares only for her people and her land; the conscript, a haunted man seeking redemption; and the mute girl, whose folk magic yields an unexpected result-these voices offer an intimate glimpse into the lives of five people tangled in historys web, caught up together in love and hate.